The ‘Mystery’ Bq Event Went Big on Android, Silent on Ubuntu

Few of us, save the most optimistic, were expecting today's media event from Bq Readers to yield news of the first Ubuntu Phone.

25 November 2014
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Ubuntu Phone Partner ‘Bq’ Holding Mystery Press Event Next Week

BQ Readers, one of two companies who plan to ship mobile handsets powered by Ubuntu for Phones, is holding a mystery media event next week, November 25, 2014, to announce three new products.

21 November 2014

Firefox Switches to Yahoo! for Search, Ubuntu Builds Not Affected

After 10 years of using Google as the default search engine in Firefox, Mozilla has announced that Yahoo! will replace it from December.

20 November 2014
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How To Enable Emoji On Ubuntu In One Easy Step

Emoji are cropping up all over the web, becoming a popular (if often baffling) part of modern communication. But how to see them in Ubuntu?

20 November 2014

Cirrus7 Add Haswell CPUs To Award-Winning Ubuntu PC

German computer company Cirrus7 has refreshed its award-winning Ubuntu desktop PC with the latest Intel 'Haswell' processors.

19 November 2014

This is The Linux-based Tablet You’ve Been Dreaming Of

While we wait for a certain Linux-based mobile OS to arrive on phones before we start thinking about tablets, other entrants are upping their game.

19 November 2014

Native Linux Twitter App ‘Corebird’ Impresses With Latest Release

In just a few short years native Twitter clients for the Linux desktop have become an endangered species.

18 November 2014

Ubuntu 15.04 Release Date Set for April 23, 2015

Doing anything special on April 23 next year? You might well be; it's the tentative release date being given for Ubuntu 15.04 'Vivid Vervet'.

18 November 2014

Budgie Desktop v8 Released With Improved Menu, Panel

A new version of Evolve OS's simple 'Budgie Desktop Environment' has been released, and the improvements under its wing are impressive.

17 November 2014

LibreOffice 4.3.4 Released With 60 Bug Fixes, v4.4 Shaping Up Nicely

Two weeks on from the last update, The Document Foundation is back with yet another minor release of its open-source LibreOffice productivity suite.

14 November 2014

Ubuntu MATE 14.04 LTS Now Available to Download

Fans of the traditional desktop can rejoice, as the first long-term support release of Ubuntu MATE is now live and available for download.

13 November 2014
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Intel Graphics Installer Updated, No Longer Makes Xorg Go Kaboom

The Intel Graphics Installer for Linux no longer performs major xserver-xorg upgrades. Ubuntu 14.10 support is due to arrive in December.

12 November 2014